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Hi there rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Ryan runs a weekly podcast for solo creators.
He's also got a newsletter, a course he's slowly building, and three sponsor deals.
He's sure one person can run all of it — with the right system.
Ryan's listeners are solo creators too, juggling five things and dropping half of them.
⛳️ Problem:
Ryan keeps every project in his head, all at once.
So he spends his weeks quietly worrying he's forgetting something — and he usually is.
By Sunday he's wiped out, and still can't say what actually needs doing next. That stings.
His struggle:
He tries to hold every project in his head, so pieces keep slipping and stalling.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ The one-page plan
Picture setting off on a road trip with no map and no list.
You'd drive around half-remembering the stops, sure you forgot something — and you did.
One page — where you're going, the route, what might go wrong — and suddenly you're calm.
That's what Marc Benioff swears by.
He built Salesforce into one of the biggest software companies on earth.
Get this: he runs the whole thing on a one-page plan he first scribbled on the back of an envelope in 1999.
He calls it the V2MOM — five plain questions, one page.
What you want (Vision), what matters most (Values), and your next steps (Methods).
Then what's in the way (Obstacles), and how you'll know it worked (Measures).
For a solo creator, you don't need it company-wide — you need it once a week.
Spend ten minutes each Sunday filling in those five, and nothing has to live in your head anymore.
🚗 So Ryan tried it his way.
Here's Ryan and the five projects rattling around in his head, again.
He'd been carrying it all in his mind, dropping a sponsor email here, a half-edited episode there.
So every Sunday, he started filling in his own one-page plan.
Vision: grow the podcast into something he could do full-time.
Values, ranked: podcast first, newsletter second, course last — so trade-offs made themselves.
Methods: the exact next step for each. Obstacles: the sponsor reply he kept dodging. Measures: downloads and replies.
Ten quiet minutes, and the whole mess was on one page instead of in his head.
For the first time in months nothing slipped, and he knew exactly what to do Monday. Bingo.
He didn't need more discipline or a fancier app.
He needed one page a week, and the fog finally cleared.
🧸 Your head is a terrible place to keep the to-do list. Put it on one page each week, and nothing slips.
The prompt below turns the mess in your head into a simple one-page weekly plan.
You just tell it your projects and what you're aiming at.
🏄♀️ The prompt
Save this prompt as a Skill or add to Project in your favorite AI tool — build once, use often.
Update your input values in the prompt, or just run it as is. Your AI sidekick will use the example values and give you an output.
CONTEXT:
- (use what's available, fall back to the inline values)
- If my Voice Profile exists, write in that voice. Otherwise, write in a clear, warm, no-jargon voice — first-person, plain words, no startup-speak.
- If my ICP / Audience doc exists, target that reader. Otherwise, use the audience below.
Inputs:
Everything I'm juggling right now (all the projects rattling around in my head):
{e.g. weekly podcast, newsletter, a half-built course, three sponsor deals}
What I'm really aiming at (the big goal the rest should serve):
{e.g. grow the podcast into something I can do full-time}
What keeps slipping or stalling (the pieces that fall through):
{e.g. sponsor emails, editing, the course never moves}
For Outcome: {e.g. a simple one-page V2MOM I can refill in 10 minutes every week}
Outputs:
1. My V2MOM — a filled-in one-pager: Vision, Values (ranked), Methods (next steps), Obstacles, Measures.
2. The ranked priorities — my projects in priority order, so trade-offs are obvious when time is tight.
3. This week's next steps — one concrete next action per project, so nothing sits vague.
4. The Sunday ritual — a 10-minute weekly routine to refill the page, so it never piles up in my head again.
Then name the ONE project I should rank LAST (or drop), because it's quietly stealing focus from the goal.
That's it, my fellow doers!
Yours 'helping you skip years of pain and frustration in your life and business' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️